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The Power of the Pod – Air New Zealand Takes Business Class Lying Down

April 7, 2010
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The Power of the Pod – Air New Zealand Takes Business Class Lying Down

On a recent flight to Sydney on Air New Zealand, I experienced for the first time, the power of the pod – Air NZ’s answer to a good night’s sleep at 37,000 feet. Now 3-weeks later, I am dismally confident that this experience has set impossible expectations for all future air travel, and find...
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Whatever Happened To Traveling By Concorde?

December 8, 2009
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Whatever Happened To Traveling By Concorde?

I was just thinking about the Concorde fleet of supersonic, luxury jets that ferried moguls, industrialists and well, Naomi Campbell, across the pond in half the time of a 747. Whatever happened to the Concorde?   Granted their cost model wasn’t exactly profitable, but to have traveled by Concorde was a prestigious distinction that the...
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If It’s Tuesday, This Must Be San Francisco – A Wives’ Tale of her Commuting Husband

October 27, 2009
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If It’s Tuesday, This Must Be San Francisco – A Wives’ Tale of her Commuting Husband

My husband is a card-carrying member of the increasingly-expanding club of air commuters – men and women who get up at the crack of dawn to catch the first flight up, down or sideways to wherever their offices are situated, forsaking health and sanity and missing literally hundreds of water polo matches, parent teacher...
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